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NOTE 

Only  the  dramatic  writers  whose  collected  works 
were  published  in  folio  size  are  represented  in 
this  exhibition.  If  familiar  and  important  names, 
like  those  of  Marlowe,  Webster,  Massinger,  Ford 
and  Shirley,  are  missing  from  the  Hst,  it  is  be- 
cause the  '^  Workes  "  of  these  authors  were  not 
issued  by  publishers  or  friends  in  *' noble  and 
stately  "  form. 

This  is  the  first  time,  so  far  as  known,  that  such 
an  exhibition  as  the  present  one  has  been  at- 
tempted. That  a  collection,  which  includes  the 
FoHos  of  Jonson  and  Shakespeare,  should  be  of 
rare  interest  and  value  is  too  obvious  a  fact  to 
need  emphasis  here. 

The  books  are  arranged  chronologically,except 
where  there  are  several  works  by  one  author,  in 
which  cases  the  later  editions  follow  the  first. 


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Samuel  Daniel  (1562-1619) 
I  The  Works  of  Samuel  Daniel  Newly  augmented. 
[Quotation]  London  Printed  for  Simon  Water- 
fon.    1 60 1 . 

Tke  Poeticall  Essayes  of  Sam.  DanyeL  Newly  cor- 
rected and  augmented. ,  appeared  in  1 599.  The  *  *  Works ' ' 
comprise  the  "Civil  Wars,"  books  i-vi,  '*Musophilus" 
and  "Octavia";  but  the  only  play  included  is  "The 
Tragedie  of  Cleopatra,"  which  was  first  issued  in  1594. 

Only  a  few  copies  of  this  folio  are  dated  1601.  They 
were  probably  intended  for  gift-copies  or  private  circu- 
lation. Some  have  special  dedicatory  poems,  in  manu- 
script, prefixed. 

The  title-page  has  a  woodcut  border  with  figures  of 
Comedy  and  Tragedy  and  the  royal  coat  of  arms. 

5 


DRAMATIC    FOLIOS    OF 

.^azlitf.  8a/3 :  /  *,Tlie  ^volvLme  _*^^as  apparently  printed  at 
two  presses,  the  second  typographer  taking  up  the  work 
at  * Musophilus, '  and  continuing  to  the  end." 

Large  paper  copies  have  been  described,  but  they  are 
probably  copies  which,  unlike  most  of  the  edition,  have 
not  been  cut  down  from  the  original  size. 

2  Another  issue. 

London  Printed  for  Simon  Waterfon.     1602. 

This  is  the  regular  published  edition,  and  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  change  of  date  is  identical  with  the  pre- 
ceding. 

Benjamin  Jonson  (i573?-i637) 

3  The  Workes  Of  Beniamin  Jonson  [Quotation] 
Imprinted  at  London  by  Will  Stansby  An^  D. 

.      1616. 

Jonson  is  said  to  have  prepared  the  volume  for  the 
press.  It  contains  nine  plays,  all  except  two  of  which 
have  a  separate  title-page  with  the  imprint,  Printed  by 
William  Stansby.  The  two  exceptions  are  "Every  Man 
out  of  his  Humour."  W.  Stansby  for  I.  Smithwicke., 
and  ' '  Poetaster. "    William  Stansby  for  Matthew  Lownes. 

The  elaborately  engraved  title-page  is  signed  "Guliel 
Hole  fecit." 

4  The  same. 

A  copy  on  large  paper.  Such  copies  are  very  rare. 
The  paper  is  finer  in  quality  and  has  a  different  water- 
mark. 


THE  SEVENTEENTH   CENTURY 

5  Another  issue. 

London  printed  by  W  Stansby,  and  are  to  be 
fould  by  Rich:  Meighen.    1616. 

A  later  issue,  with  the  old  imprint  rubbed  out  and  the 
new  one  engraved  in  its  place.  There  are  changes  in 
the  text  of  the  last  page  of  the  masque  called  "The 
Golden  Age." 

6  The  Workes  Of  Benjamin  Jonson  [Quotation] 
London.  Printed  by  Richard  Bifhop,  and  are 
to  be  fold  by  Andrew  Crooke  in  S*-  Paules, 
Church-yard.     An^  D.  1640. 

A  reprint  of  the  1616  edition,  with  one  epigram  added. 
There  are  some  printer's  errors,  some  author's  correc- 
tions and  alterations. 

The  portrait  by  Robert  Vaughan,  after  the  original 
painting  by  Gerard  Honthorst,  was  issued  in  a  first  state 
as  a  print.  It  was  published  in  this  volume  in  a  second 
state.  The  inscription  reads  :  "  Ben  :  lohnsonii.  Vera 
Effigies  Doctissimi  Poetaram  Anglorum."  Below  are 
eight  lines  in  Latin,  and  the  English  couplet,  signed 
"Ab:  Holl:": 

*  *  O  could  there  be  an  art  found  out  that  might 
Produce  his  shape  soe  lively  as  to  Write." 

The  line  "  Are  to  be  Sould  by  William  Peake,"  found  at 
the  bottom  of  the  print  in  its  first  state,  has  been 
erased  from  this  impression.  The  portrait  in  this  state 
was  issued  also  with  the  Execration  againft  Vulcan, 
published  in  1640. 

The  title-page  shows  signs  of  having  been  retouched. 

7 


DRAMATIC    FOLIOS   OF 

7  The  same. 

A  copy  on  large  paper. 

8  The  Workes  Of  Benjamin  Jensen.  The  fecend 
Volume.  Containing  These  Playes,  Viz.  i 
Bartholomew  Fayre.  2  The  Staple  of  Newes. 
3  The  Divell  is  an  Affe.  London,  Printed  for 
Richard  Meighen.     1640. 

The  three  plays  whose  names  are  given  in  the  title  were 
probably  originally  intended,  and  perhaps  issued,  as  a  sup- 
plement to  the  1616  volume.  The  volume  contains  three 
more  plays,  and  a  fragment  of  a  fourth.  Some  of  these 
are  dated  1631,  some  1640,  and  others  1641.  Mr.  Brins- 
ley  Nicholson,  in  a  note  on  **  Ben  Jonson's  Folios  and 
the  Bibliographers,"  says  : 

"The  changes  of  paging  and  signatures  throughout 
Meighen 's  volume  are  so  great  that  I  am  unable  to  form 
an  idea  of  what  his  full  intents  were.  One,  however,  is 
pretty  plain,  both  in  his  and  Bishop's  volumes  —  that, 
namely,  of  selling  certain  portions  either  separately  or 
collectively." 

Mr.  W.  W.  Greg  notes  that  the  collection  was  edited 
by  Sir  Kenelm  Digby. 

9  The  same. 

A  copy  on  large  paper.  For  many  years  it  was  sup- 
posed that  this  volume  did  not  exist  in  this  size. 

10  The  Works  Of    Ben  Jensen,  Which  were  for- 
merly Printed  in  Two  Volumes,  are   now  Re- 
8 


THE   SEVENTEENTH   CENTURY 

printed  in  One.  To  which  is  added  A  Comedy 
Called  The  New  Inn.  With  Additions  never  before 
Pubhfhed.  [Quotation]  [Printer's  ornaments] 
London,  Printed  by  Thomas  Hodgkin,  for  H. 
Herringman,  E.  Brewfler,  T.  Baffett,  R.  Chif- 
well,  M.  Watton,  G.  Conyers,  MDCXCII. 

This  is  the  edition  which  the  publishers  of  Beaumont 
and  Fletcher's  Folio  of  1679  proposed  to  issue  if  suffi- 
cient encouragement  was  shown. 

The  additions  never  before  published  include  Leges 
Convivales.  Rules  For  The  Tavern  Academy  :  Or,  Laws 
For  The  Beaux  Esprits  .  .  .  Engraven  in  Marble  over 
the  Chimny,  in  the  Apollo  of  the  Old  Devil  Tavern  at 
Temple- Bar  :  That  being  his  Club  Room.  \^Quotation'\ 
By  Ben.  Johnson.  London  :  Printed,  for  Tho.  Baffett  at 
the  George  in  Fleet,-ftreet  .   .   .  MDCXCII. 

The  Vaughan  portrait,  enlarged,  reengraved  and 
signed,  *'  W.  Elder  sculp  :,"  is  used  as  a  frontispiece. 

William  Shakespeare  (1564-16 16) 
M!  William  Shakespeares  Comedies,  Histories, 
&  Tragedies.  Publifhed  according  to  the  True 
Originall  Copies.  [Portrait]  London  Printed 
by  Ifaac  laggard,  and  Ed.  Blount.  1623. 
(Colophon)  Printed  at  the  Charges  of  W. 
Jaggard,  Ed.  Blount,  I.  Smith weeke,  and  W. 
Afpley,  1623. 

Mr.  Sidney  Lee  says : 

"Only  two  of  Shakespeare's  works — his  narrative 
poems  'Venus  and  Adonis'  and  'Lucrece' — were  pub- 


DRAMATIC    FOLIOS    OF 

lished  with  his  sanction  and  co-operation.  These 
poems  were  the  first  specimens  of  his  work  to  appear 
in  print,  and  they  passed  in  his  lifetime  through  a 
greater  number  of  editions  than  any  of  his  plays." 

The  printers  and  publishers,  whose  names  are  given 
in  the  colophon  above,  were  pecuniarily  responsible  for 
the  venture  of  printing  the  collected  edition  of  the  poet's 
works;  but  John  Heming  and  Henry  Condell,  fellow- 
actors  with  Shakespeare,  were  nominally  responsible  for 
the  venture,  judging  by  their  statement  in  the  address 
called  "To  the  great  Variety  of  Readers  "  : 

* '  It  had  bene  a  thing,  we  confelTe,  worthie  to  haue 
bene  wilhed,  that  the  Author  himfelfe  had  liu'd  to  haue 
fet  forth,  and  ouerfeen  his  owne  writings ;  But  fmce  it 
hath  bin  ordain'd  otherwife,  and  he  by  death  departed 
from  that  right,  we  pray  you  do  not  envie  his  Friends, 
the  office  of  their  care,  and  paine,  to  haue  collected  & 
publilh'd  them;" 

The  collection  contains  thirty-six  pieces  in  all,  and 
comprises  twenty  hitherto  unprinted  plays.  One  play, 
"Pericles,"  previously  published,  was  not  included. 
The  edition  is  thought  to  have  numbered  six  hundred 
copies,  and  the  volumes  sold  for  a  pound  a  copy.  About 
two  hundred  copies  have  been  traced,  and,  as  Mr.  Lee 
says :  "Of  these  fewer  than  twenty  are  in  a  perfect 
state,  that  is,  with  the  portrait  printed  {not  inlaid)  on 
the  title-page,  and  the  flyleaf  facing  it,  with  all  the  pages 
succeeding  it,  intact  and  uninjured." 

The  verses  on  the  flyleaf,  attesting  the  truthfulness  of 
the  portrait,  are  by  Ben  Jonson. 

The  famous  portrait  was  engraved  by  Martin  Droe- 
shout,  who  belonged  to  a  family  of  Flemish  engravers 
long  settled  in  London.  It  was  possibly  done  after  the 
"Flower"  painting  now  in  the  Shakespeare  Memorial 
Gallery  at  Stratford-on-Avon,  which  reappeared  in  1892. 


THE    SEVENTEENTH    CENTURY 

There  are  numerous  variations,  or  irregularities,  in  the 
copies.  A  copy  in  the  Lenox  Library  bears  the  date 
1622  instead  of  1623 ;  '*  but  there  is  little  doubt  that  the 
last  figure  has  been  tampered  with  by  a  modern  owner." 

The  main  defects  of  the  First  Folio  were  perpetuated 
in  the  succeeding  second,  third  and  fourth  editions. 
Mr.  Lee  says : 

"Dryden,  writing  in  1673,  in  his  'Essay  on  the  Dra- 
matic Poetry  of  the  last  Age'  (p.  160),  expressed  wonder 
at  the  reverence  extended  to  Shakespeare,  whose  work 
he  only  knew  in  the  folios,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  every 
page  of  the  extant  editions  presented  some  *  solecism  in 
speech  or  some  notorious  flaw  in  sense.'  But  in  spite 
of  the  careless  ignorance  of  printers  —  their  spelling 
vagaries,  their  misreadings  of  the  *  copy, '  and  their 
inability  to  reproduce  intelligently  any  sentence  in  a 
foreign  language  —  many  columns  of  the  First  Folio,  as 
of  its  three  successors,  can  be  still  perused  uninter- 
ruptedly with  understanding  by  the  careful  student  of 
Elizabethan  typography  and  Elizabethan  English." 

Facsimiles  of  the  First  Folio 

The  First  Folio  has  been  five  times  reproduced 
in  facsimile.  It  was  printed  by  E.  &  J.  Wright, 
St.  John's  Square,  in  1806;  and  for  Lionel 
Booth,  by  J.  Strangeways  and  Walden  in  1864. 
The  latter  volume  is  in  three  parts.  The  third 
reproduction  by  the  newly  discovered  process  of 
photo-lithography  was  executed  in  1866,  under 
the  superintendence  of  Howard  Staunton,  and 
was  published  by  Day  &  Son.  The  fourth,  a 
photographic  facsimile,  was  reduced  to  octavo 


DRAMATIC    FOLIOS   OF 

size.  It  was  published  by  Chatto  &  Windus  in 
1876,  with  an  introduction  by  J.  O.  Halliwell- 
Phillipps.  The  last  and  best  reproduction  was 
issued  in  1902,  under  the  editorship  of  Sidney 
Lee.  The  process  employed  was  collotype. 
The  copy  of  the  folio  from  which  the  facsimile 
was  taken  is,  Mr.  Lee  says,  "  in  all  probability 
the  cleanest  and  freshest  example  in  existence." 
It  belongs  to  the  Duke  of  Devonshire. 

12  M"'  William  Shakespeares  Comedies,  Histories, 
and  Tragedies.  Publifhed  according  to  the  true 
Originall  Copies.  The  fecond  Imprefsion.  [Por- 
trait as  above]  London,  Printed  by  Tho.  Cotes, 
for  lohn  Smethwick,  and  are  to  be  fold  at  his 
fhop  in  Saint  Dunflans  Church-yard.  1632. 
(Colophon)  Printed  at  London  by  Thomas 
Cotes,  for  John  Smethwick,  Wilham  Afpley, 
Richard  Hawkins,  Richard  Meighen,  and  Robert 
Allot,  1632. 

**The  Second  Folio  was  reprinted  from  the  First;  a 
few  corrections  were  made  in  the  text,  but  most  of  the 
changes  were  arbitrary  and  needless."     Lee. 

The  chief  promoters  of  the  work  were  Thomas  Cotes, 
the  printer,  Jaggard's  successor,  and  Robert  Allot, 
Blount's  successor.  Most  of  the  copies  have  Allot's 
name,  but  each  of  the  other  publishers,  whose  names  are 
given  in  the  colophon,  issued  copies  with  his  own  name 
and  address  on  the  title-page.  Except  for  very  slight  dif- 
ferences in  the  type,  and  a  variation  in  spelling  in  some  of 

12 


THE    SEVENTEENTH   CENTURY 

Allot's  copies,  the  titles  are  the  same  in  all  the  volumes. 
The  portrait,  and  Jonson's  lines,  occupy  the  same  places 
that  they  held  in  the  First  Folio. 

13  The  fecond  Imprefsion.  [Portrait]  London, 
Printed  by  Tho.  Cotes,  for  William  Afpley,  and 
are  to  be  fold  at  the  figne  of  the  Parrat  in  Pauls 
Church-yard.  1632.  (Colophon)  Printed  at 
London  by  Thomas  Cotes,  for  John  Smeth- 
wick,  William  Afpley,  Richard  Hawkins,  Rich- 
ard Meighen,  and  Robert  Allot,  1632. 

Aspley,  who,  like  Smethwick,  had  played  a  small  part 
in  the  production  of  the  First  Folio,  continued  his  inter- 
est in  the  Second. 

14  The  fecond  Imprefsion.  [Portrait]  London, 
Printed  by  Tho.  Cotes,  for  Richard  Hawkins, 
and  are  to  be  fold  at  his  fhop  in  Chancery  Lane, 
neere  Serjeants  Inne.  1632.  (Colophon)  Printed 
at  London  by  Thomas  Cotes,  for  John  Smeth- 
wick, William  Afpley,  Richard  Hawkins,  Rich- 
ard Meighen,  and  Robert  Allot,  1632. 

Hawkins  had  recently  acquired  the  right  to  *'  Othello. " 

15  The  fecond  Imprefsion.  [Portrait]  London, 
Printed  by  Tho.  Cotes,  for  Richard  Meighen, 
and  are  to  be  fold  at  the  middle  Temple  Gate 
in  Fleetflreet.  1632.  (Colophon)  Printed  at 
London  by  Thomas  Cotes,  for  John  Smethwick, 

13 


DRAMATIC    FOLIOS    OF 

William   Afpley,    Richard    Hawkins,    Richard 
Meighen,  and  Robert  Allot,  1632. 

Meighen  had  come  into  the  right  to  the  "Merry 
Wives." 

16  The  fecond  Imprefsion.  [Portrait]  London, 
Printed  by  Tho.  Cotes,  for  Robert  Allot,  and 
are  to  be  fold  at  his  fhop  at  the  figne  of  the 
blacke  Beare  in  Pauls  Church-yard.  1632. 
(Colophon)  Printed  at  London  by  Thomas  Cotes, 
for  John  Smethwick,  William  Afpley,  Richard 
Hawkins,  Richard  Meighen,  and  Robert  Allot, 
1632. 

There  are  several  variations  in  the  title-pages  of  Allot' s 
copies.  Some  few,  like  this  one,  have  the  word  '  *  coppies  " 
in  the  title,  while  others  have  ** copies."  The  words 
''at  his  (hop  "  do  not  appear  in  all  the  imprints. 

1 7  The  same. 

The  word  ** coppies"  is  here  spelled  correctly,  and 
**  at  his  fhop  "  is  omitted. 


18  M^-  William  Shakespeares  Comedies,  Hiflories, 
and  Tragedies.  Publifhed  according  to  the  true 
Originall  Copies.  The  Third  Imprefsion.  Lon- 
don, Printed  for  Philip  Chetwinde,  1663. 

This  issue  of  the  Third  Folio  is,  for  the  most  part,  a 
faithful  reprint  of  the  Second. 

14 


THE    SEVENTEENTH    CENTURY 

The  portrait  should  appear  on  the  title-page ;  but  in 
this  case  it  was  omitted,  probably  by  a  mistake  of  the 
printer.  Copies  with  the  portrait  are  extremely  rare. 
This  volume  has  an  extra  title-page,  belonging  to  the 
1664  issue. 


19  M*^-  William  Shakespear*s  Comedies,  Hiflories, 
and  Tragedies.  Publifhed  according  to  the  true 
Original  Copies.  The  third  Impreffion.  And 
unto  this  Impreffion  is  added  feven  Playes, 
never  before  Printed  in  Folio,  viz.  Pericles 
Prince  of  Tyre.  The  London  Prodigall.  The 
Hiilory  of  Thomas  L**-  Cromwell.  Sir  John 
Oldcaflle  Lord  Cobham.  The  Puritan  Widow. 
A  York-shire  Tragedy.  The  Tragedy  of  Lo- 
crine.  [Printer's  mark]  London,  Printed  for 
P.  C.     1664. 

The  seven  new  plays  were  added  to  the  sheets  of  the 
1663  issue,  and  published  with  the  new  title-page.  The 
portrait,  for  which  there  was  no  room  where  it  was  in 
the  other  editions,  now  faces  the  title,  and  Jonson's 
lines  are  printed  beneath  it. 

Six  of  the  plays  have  no  claim  to  admission  among 
Shakespeare's  works.  Mr.  Sidney  Lee  says:  **The  six 
spurious  pieces  which  open  [end  ?]  the  volume  were  attrib- 
uted by  unprincipled  publishers  to  Shakespeare  in  his 
lifetime.  Fewer  copies  of  the  Third  Folio  are  reputed 
to  be  extant  than  of  the  Second  or  Fourth,  owing  to  the 
alleged  destruction  of  many  unsold  impressions  in  the 
Fire  of  London  in  1666." 

15 


DRAMATIC   FOLIOS   OF 

20  M^-  William  Shakefpear's  Comedies,  Histories, 
And  Tragedies.  Publifhed  according  to  the  true 
Original  Copies.  Unto  which  is  added,  Seven 
Plays,  Never  before  Printed  in  Folio:  Viz. 
Pericles  Prince  of  Tyre.  The  London  Prodigal. 
The  Hiflory  of  Thomas  Lord  Cromwel.  Sir 
John  Oldcaflle  Lord  Cobham.  The  Puritan 
Widow.  A  Yorkfhire  Tragedy.  The  Tragedy 
of  Locrine.  The  Fourth  Edition.  [Printer's 
mark]  London,  Printed  for  H.  Herringman, 
E.  Brewfler,  and  R.  Bentley,  at  the  Anchor  in 
the  New  Exchange,  the  Crane  in  St.  Pauls 
Church- Yard,  and  in  Ruffel-Street  Coven t-Gar- 
den.     1685. 

The  contents  of  the  Fourth  Folio  are  the  same  as  in 
the  third  edition.  The  portrait  and  verses  face  the  title- 
page  and  there  are  no  changes  in  the  text.  The  spelling 
is  modernized. 


21  The  Fourth  Edition.  London,  Printed  for  H. 
Herringman,  E.  Brewfler,  R.  Chifwell,  and  R. 
Bentley,  at  the  Anchor  in  the  New  Exchange ; 
and  at  the  Crane,  and  Rofe  and  Crown  in  St. 
Pauls  Church- Yard,  and  in  Ruffel-Street  Co- 
vent-Garden.     1685. 

Copies  exist  with  still  other  changes  in  the  imprint. 
**  There  are  two  title-pages,  varying  in  the  size  of  the 
type,  and  in  the  imprint."     Lenox. 

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THE   SEVENTEENTH   CENTURY 

Sir  William  Alexander,  Earl  of  Stirling 

(i567?-i64o). 
2  2  Recreations   With   the   Muses.      By   William 
Earle  of  Sterline.     London,  Printed  by  Tho. 
Harper.     1637. 

This  "North  British  Bard,"  as  Baker  called  him,  was 
a  statesman  as  well  as  a  poet.  In  1621  he  was  granted 
jurisdiction  over  Nova  Scotia  and  Canada. 

The  volume  contains  "Foure  Monarchicke  Tragedies." 
*  *  Doomef-day,  or,  the  great  day  of  the  Lords  judgement, 
in  twelve  houres."  "A  Paraenefis  to  Prince  Henry." 
"Jonathan,  An  heroicke  Poeme  intended.  The  firft 
Booke." 

Of  the  "  Foure  Monarchicke  Tragedies,"  "The  Tra- 
gedie  of  Darius  "  was  published  in  quarto  in  1603 ;  "  The 
Tragedy  of  Croesus,"  with  "Darius,"  in  1604;  and 
"The  Alexandraean  Tragedie "  and  "The  Tragedy  of 
lulius  Caesar,"  with  the  first  two,  in  quarto  in  1607. 

The  portrait,  "Vera  Effigies  Gulielmi  Comitis  De 
Sterlin.  ^tatis  Suae  LVII.,"  is  very  rare,  and  is  said 
to  have  been  used  only  in  the  author's  copies.  It  is 
signed  "Wilhel.  Marlhall  fculpsit.";  and  is  called  the 
masterpiece  of  that  engraver. 

The  title-page  has  a  woodcut  border. 

Francis   Beaumont  (i  584-1616)  and  John 
Fletcher  (i 579-1625) 

23  Comedies  And  Tragedies  Written  by  Francis 
Beaumont  And  John  Fletcher  Gentlemen. 
Never  printed  before,  And  now  pubUfhed  by 
the    Authours   Originall    Copies.      [Quotation] 

17 


DRAMATIC   FOLIOS   OF 

London,  Printed  for  Humphrey  Robinfon,  at 
the  three  Pidgeons,  and  for  Humphrey  Mofeley 
at  the  Princes  Armes  in  St  Pauls  Church-yard. 
1647. 

This  collection  was  edited  by  James  Shirley.  It  con- 
tains thirty-four  plays,  and  includes  all  that  had  not 
previously  appeared,  with  the  exception  of  the  "Wild 
Goose  Chase,"  which  was  thought  to  be  lost. 

The  portrait  of  Fletcher  inscribed,  ''Poetarum  In- 
geniosissimus  loannes  Fletcherus  •  Anglus,  Episcopi 
Lond:  Fili'"  "Obijt  1625  ^tat :  49.",  is  signed  "GulieP 
Marfliall  Fecit."  The  nine  lines  beneath  the  cartouche 
are  signed,  **  J.  Berkenhead." 

24  The  same. 

The  portrait  is  in  a  first  state.  The  name  "J.  Ber- 
kenhead "  appears  here  in  large  letters. 

25  The  Wild-Goofe  Chafe.  A  Comedie.  As  it  hath 
been  Acted. with  fmgular  Applaufe  at  the  Black- 
Friers:  Being  the  Noble,  Lafl,  and  Onely  Re- 
maines  of  thofe  Incomparable  Drammatifls, 
Francis  Beaumont,  and  John  Fletcher,  Gent. 
Retriv'd  for  the  publick  dehght  of  all  the  In- 
genious ;  And  private  Benefit  Of  John  Lowin, 
And  Joseph  Taylor,  Servants  to  His  late  Ma- 
jestic. By  a  Perfon  of  Honour.  [Quotation] 
London,  Printed  for  Humpherey  Mofeley,  and 
are  to  be  fold  at  the  Princes  Armes  in  St.  Paules 
Church-yard.     1652. 

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THE   SEVENTEENTH   CENTURY 

The  lost  manuscript  having  been  found,  the  play  was 
now  published,  as  the  title  says,  for  the  benefit  of  Lowin 
and  Taylor,  two  needy  actors. 

26  Fifty  Comedies  and  Tragedies.  Written  by 
Francis  Beaumont  and  John  Fletcher,  Gentlemen. 
All  in  one  Volume.  Published  by  the  Authors 
Original  Copies,  the  songs  to  each  Play  being 
added.  Si  quid  habent  veri  Vatum  prsefagia 
vivam.  London,  Printed  by  J.  Maycock,  for 
John  Martyn,  Henry  Herringman,  Richard 
Marriot,  MDCLXXIX. 

The  volume  contains  seventeen  plays,  which  were 
printed  in  quarto  before  the  First  Folio.  A  list  of  the 
Dramatis  Personae  is  prefixed  to  each  play,  and  songs 
are  introduced  where  they  were  missing  in  the  First  Folio. 
The  publishers  in  their  preface  profess  to  have  reprinted 
from  a  corrected  copy  of  1647.  They  say  :  ''If  our  care 
and  endeavours  to  do  our  Authors  right  (in  an  incorrupt 
and  genuine  Edition  of  their  Works)  ...  be  but  requited 
with  a  suitable  entertainment  we  shall  be  encouraged  to 
bring  Ben  Johnson's  two  volumes  into  one  and  publish 
them  in  this  form,  and  also  to  reprint  Old  Shakespeare : 
both  which  are  designed  by  Yours  "  etc. 

Margaret  Cavendish,  Duchess  of  New- 
castle (i624?~i674). 

27  Playes  Written  by  the  Thrice  Noble,  Illustrious 
And  Excellent  Princefs,  The  Lady  Marchioness 
Of  Newcastle.  [Printer's  mark]  London,  Printed 
by  A.  Warren,  for  John  Martyn,  James  AUestry, 

19 


DRAMATIC   FOLIOS   OF 

and   The.  Dicas,   at   the    Bell   in    Saint   Pauls 
Church  Yard,  1662. 

"  This  fantastic  lady,  as  Mr.  Walpole  calls  her, "  was  the 
wife  of  William  Cavendish,  Duke  of  Newcastle,  who  was 
also  a  dramatic  writer.  *' All  the  pieces  he  has  left  us  in 
that  way  of  writing  are  of  the  comic  kind." 

The  volume,  containing  twenty-one  plays,  is  some- 
times thought  to  be  a  first  volume,  and  the  "Plays" 
printed  in  1668,  a  second  volume  of  *'  Mad  Madge's  " 
"Works."     They  are,  however,  quite  separate. 

Besides  "The  Dedication,"  and  "The  Epistle  Dedi- 
catory," there  are  nine  letters,  of  varying  lengths,  ad- 
dressed "To  the  Readers,"  who  are  designated  as 
"  Noble  readers,"  "  Worthy  readers,"  and  so  on. 

28  Plays,  Never  before  Printed.  Written  By  the 
Thrice,  Noble,  Illuflrious,  and  Excellent  Prin- 
cesse.  The  Duchefs  of  Newcaflle.  [Ornament] 
London,  Printed  by  A.  Maxwell,  in  the  Year 
M.DC.LX.VIII. 

The  volume  is  often  cut  down  to  make  it  appear  to  be  a 
second  volume  to  the  "  Plays  "  of  1662.  It  contains  five 
plays.  The  portrait  is  signed  "  Abr  Diepenbeke  delin. " 
"Van  Schuppen  fculpsit."  "  Portraits  of  the  duchess, 
sometimes  alone  and  at  other  times  in  the  midst  of  her 
family,  were  appended  to  many  of  her  volumes.  These 
are  ordinarily  absent,  and  are  scarcer  than  the  volumes 
themselves,  the  rarity  of  some  of  which  is  excessive. " 

The  book  is  notable  for  the  large  size  of  its  type. 

Thomas  Killigrew,  the  elder  (161 2-1683) 

29  Comedies,  And  Tragedies.     Written  By  Thomas 

20 


THE   SEVENTEENTH    CENTURY 

Killigrew,  Page  of  Honour  to  King  Charles  the 
Firfl.  And  Groom  of  the  Bed- Chamber  to  King 
Charles  the  Second.  [Printer's  mark]  London, 
Printed  for  Henry  Herringman,  at  the  Sign  of 
the  Anchor  in  the  Lower  Walk  of  the  New- Ex- 
change.   1664. 

The  collection  consists  of  eight  plays.  Three  of  them 
are  in  two  parts.  Each  play  has  a  separate  title-page, 
dated  either  1663  or  1664.  Three  of  the  plays  were 
acted,  but  there  is  no  record  of  the  others  having  been 
put  on  the  stage. 

The  celebrated  portrait  of  the  author  with  his  dog  is 
signed,  "W.  Sheppard  pinx. , "  "W:  Faithorne  fculp  :  "; 
and  the  inscription  reads:  "Thomas  Killegrew  Page  of 
Honour  to  King  Charles  the  first  Groome  of  the  Bed- 
chamber to  King  Charles  the  Second  and  his  Ma***^  : 
Resident  with  the  Republique  of  Venice  in  the  yeare 
1650." 

Sir  Robert  Howard  (1626-1698) 
30  Four  New  Plays,  Viz : 

^j^    (  Suprisal,       )  Comedies. 
(  Committee,  ) 
.j^j^C  Indian-Queen,  > 

(  Vestal- Virgin,  )  ^ 
As  they  were  Acted  by  His  Majesties  Servants 
at  the  Theatre- Royal.  Written  by  the  Honour- 
able Sir  Robert  Howard.  Imprimatur,  March 
7.  i66f.  Roger  L'Eflrange.  London,  Printed 
for  Henry  Herringman,  and  are  to  be  fold   at 


DRAMATIC    FOLIOS   OF 

his    Shop    at    the    Blew-Anchor  in  the  Lower 
Walk  of  the  New-Exchange.     1665. 

"With  respect  to  Sir  Robert  Howard's  abilities," 
Baker  says,  ''they  appear  to  have  occasioned  debates 
among  the  writers  .  .  .  while  Gibber,  on  the  contrary, 
will  allow  him  no  higher  claim  to  notice  in  the  re- 
public of  letters,  than  that  of  being  brother-in-law  to 
Dryden. 

*  *  Howard  does  not  mention  that  Dryden  was  concerned 
in  the  authorship  [of  the  **  Indian  Queen  "] ;  but  Dryden, 
in  the  preface  to  the  '  Indian  Emperor'  —  which  was  de- 
signed as  a  sequel  to  the  *  Indian  Queen '  —  states  that  he 
wrote  part  of  the  earlier  play." 


31  Five  New  Plays,  Viz. 

The  I  S"^P"^^1'       [  Comedies. 
(  Committee,  ) 

And 

/  Indian-Queen,     ^ 
The  )  Veftal- Virgin,       i  Tragedies. 

(  Duke  of  Lerma,  ) 
As  they  were  Acted  by  His  Majesty's  Servants 
at  the  Theatre- Royal.  Written  by  the  Honour- 
able Sir  Robert  Howard.  The  Second  Edition 
Corrected.  London,  Printed  for  Henry  Herring- 
man,  and  are  to  be  Sold  by  R.  Bentley,  J.  Ton- 
fon,  F.  Saunders,  and  T.  Bennet.      MDCXCII. 

There  are  variations  in  the  imprint.     All  the  plays 
have  separate  title-pages. 

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THE   SEVENTEENTH    CENTURY 

The  portrait,  which  appeared  with  this  edition,  is  signed, 
"The  Hon^e  ST    Robert    Howard."    "G.    Kneller 
Eques  pinxit.    R.  White  Sculpfit." 

Sir  William  Killigrew  (1606-1695) 
32  Four  New  Playes,  viz:  The  Seege  of  Vrbin. 
Selindra.  Love  and  Friendship.  Pandora.  A 
Comedy.  Tragy-Comedies.  Written  by  S' 
William  Killigrew,  Vice-Chamberlaine  to  Her 
Majesty.  [Printer's  mark]  Oxford,  Printed  by 
Hen :  Hall,  printer  to  the  University,  for  Ric : 
Davis,  1666. 

"Selindra"  had  been  published  alone  in  October, 
1665,  and  again,  the  same  year,  with  "Pandora"  in 
"Three  Playes,"  printed  by  T.  Mabb,  for  John  Playford 
and  Thomas  Horsman.  Each  play  has  a  separate  title- 
page. 

Sir  William  was  the  eldest  son  of  Sir  Robert  Killigrew 
and  a  brother  of  Thomas.  Anne  Killigrew,  poetess  and 
painter,  who  died  of  small-pox,  was  his  niece. 

Roger  Boyle,  Baron  Broghill,  and  first 
Earl  of  Orrery  (1621-1679) 
^^  Two  New  Tragedies.  The  Black  Prince,  And 
Tryphon.  The  firfl  Acted  at  the  Theater- 
Royal  By  His  Majesties  Servants;  The  Other 
By  his  Highnefs  the  Duke  of  York's  Servants. 
Both  Written  by  the  Right  Honourable  the 
Earl  of  Orrery.  London,  Printed  for  H.  Her- 
23 


DRAMATIC   FOLIOS   OF 

ringman,  at  the  Sign  of   the  Blew  Anchor,  in 
the  Lower  Walk  of  the  New  Exchange.    1672. 

Boyle,  who  was  a  statesman  and  soldier,  as  well  as  a 
dramatist,  wrote  a  ''Treatise  on  the  Art  of  War,"  but  it 
was  in  connection  with  the  plays  that  Baker  said  of  his 
wit,  whose  "early  blossoms"  were  fair,  **but  not  fairer 
than  the  fruit." 

''The  Black  Prince"  was  published  in  1669.  "Try- 
phon,"  which  had  not  been  printed  before,  has  a  separate 
title-page.     Each  play  is  paged  separately. 

These  two  plays,  and  the  two  published  in  1677,  are 
in  rhymed  couplets. 

34  The  History  Of  Henry  the  Fifth.  And  The 
Tragedy  Of  Mustapha,  Son  of  Solyman  the 
Magnificent.  As  they  were  Acted  at  his  High- 
nefs,  the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre.  Written  by 
The  Right  Honourable,  the  Earl  of  Orrery. 
London,  Printed  by  T.  N.  for  Henry  Herring- 
man,  at  the  Sign  of  the  Blew  Anchor  in  the 
Lower  Walk  of  the  New  Exchange.    1677. 

"Henry  the  Fifth"  was  first  published  in  1668. 
"Mustapha,"  first  published  in  1668,  has  a  separate 
title-page,  and  its  two  parts  are  paged  together.  This 
and  the  preceding  volume  are  bound  together. 

Sir  William  D'Avenant  (i 606-1 668) 

35  The  Works  Of  S' WilUam  Davenant  K*  Confift- 
ing  of  Thofe  which  were  formerly  Printed,  And 
Thofe  which  he  defign'd  for  the  Prefs:  Now 
Published  Out  of  the  Authors  Originall  Copies. 

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[Printer's  ornament]  London:  Printed  by  T. 
N.  for  Henry  Herringman,  at  the  Sign  of  the 
Blew  Anchor  in  the  Lower  Walk  of  the  New 
Exchange.     1673. 

There  are  fifteen  plays  in  the  collection.  Three  of 
them,  ''News  from  Plimouth,"  "The  Fair  Favorite," 
and  "  Spanish  Lovers,"  or,  "  Distresses,"  had  not  been 
published  before.  The  masque  "  Coelum  Britanicum," 
by  Thomas  Carew,  was  printed  here  by  mistake.  It 
was  first  issued  by  Thomas  Walkley  in  1634,  and  was 
afterward  included  in  Carew' s  "Poems,"  which  that 
publisher  put  forth  in  1640. 

"  Gondibert  "  and  "The  Siege  of  Rhodes  "  have  sep- 
arate title-pages. 

The  portrait  bust  of  D'Avenant,  crowned  with  laurel, 
is  signed  "  lo.  Greenhill  pinx.     W.  Faithorne  Sculp." 

John  Dryden  (1631-1700) 

36  The  Comedies,  Tragedies,  And  Operas  Written 
by  John  Dryden,  Efq;  Now  firfl  Collected  to- 
gether, and  Corrected  from  the  Originals.  In 
Two  Volumes.  London,  Printed  for  Jacob 
Tonfon,  at  Gray's- Inn- Gate  in  Gray's-Inn-Lane ; 
Thomas  Bennet,  at  the  Half-Moon ;  and  Richard 
Welhngton,  at  the  Lute  in  St.  PauPs  Church- 
Yard.    MDCCI. 

The  line  engraving  of  **M'.  John  Dryden"  has  the 
inscription  ''Peint  par  le  Chevalier  Kneller.  Graue  le 
Chevalier  Edelinck  C.  P.  R."  It  was  probably  pub- 
lished separately  also.  Copies  of  the  book  occur  on 
large  paper. 


INDEX   OF   AUTHORS 

Alexander  (Sir  William),  Earl  of  Stirling,  17. 
Beaumont  (Francis)  and  John  Fletcher,  17-19. 
Boyle  (Roger),  Baron  Broghill,  and  first  Earl  of 

Orrery,  23,  24. 
Broghill  (Baron)  and  first  Earl  of  Orrery  (Roger 

Boyle),  23,  24. 
Cavendish  (Margaret),  Duchess  of  Newcastle,  19,  20. 
Daniel  (Samuel),  5,  6, 
D'Avenant  (Sir  William),  24,  25. 
Dryden  (John),  25. 

Fletcher  (John)  and  Francis  Beaumont,  17-19. 
Howard  (Sir  Robert),  21-23. 
Jonson  (Benjamin),  6-9. 
Killigrew  (Thomas),  the  elder,  20-21. 
Killigrew  (Sir  William),  23. 

Newcastle  (Margaret  Cavendish,  Duchess  of),  19,  20. 
Orrery  (Roger  Boyle,  Baron  Broghill,  and  first  Earl 

of),  23,  24. 
Shakespeare  (William),  9-16. 
Stirling  (Sir  William  Alexander,  Earl  of),  17. 


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